A conjurer in Chinese garb jumps out of a box that's about two feet wide and six inches high. He conjures an assistant from the same box plus a young woman, who then disappears into the box. He continuously picks up the box and shows us the empty inside. Next, he removes many small boxes from the larger box, stacks them on top of each other after making a base row of six or seven. The stacked boxes (magic bricks) become a movie screen, revealing the image of a laughing child. The magician knocks the bricks down with his wand and the child disappears, one row at a time. The conjurer has the bricks fly back to re-form the screen, and we see the Pathé Frères cock. Written by jhailey

Director: Segundo de Chomón
Country: France
Production Co: Pathé Frères

VERY impressive for its time
13 April 2003 | by Squirrel-5
This film has special effects which for it's time are very impressive. Some if it is easily explainable with the scenes played backwards but the overlay of moving images on an object on film is surprisingly well done given that this film was made more than 94 years ago.


This movie is part of the collection: The Segundo de Chomón Collection

Director: Segundo de Chomón
Producer: Segundo de Chomón
Sponsor: GenX
Audio/Visual: Silent, Color
Keywords: GenX; Segundo de Chomón; Magician; Fantasy;

Creative Commons license: Public Domain Mark 1.0

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Runtime: 3 min
Sound Mix: Silent
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio: 1.33 : 1
Film negative format (mm/video inches)
35 mm
Cinematographic process
Spherical
Printed film format
35 mm